Cats

Susi and I are so pleased that this month our host at Art Journal Journey is Rike of Rike's Art.  She is an excellent host and has created some wonderful art and visited everyone who has linked to AJJ.  For that we thank you, Rike.  As for the challenge, Rike wants us to use yellow in our art.  As much as I would have preferred to play more, this will more than likely be my final entry this month.

I wanted to show my first layer of this latest spread, but my camera decided the batteries were dead.  Rather than wait for batteries to recharge, I decided to scan the page.  Sadly, no amount of color correcting in Photoshop could make up for the fact my scanner is on its last leg.

This is the finished entry I simply call Cats.   I realize it looks rather wonky, but that's because I normally stand on a step stool to photograph my pages.  However, I had taken it to the craft room to get paint from one of the upper shelves.  I didn't want to bring it back until I returned the paint, but didn't realize how hard it would be to get the page aligned correctly when I couldn't stand over it.

A few step out photos to show the various layers.

For this page, I began by adding yellow acrylic craft paint to what was left of my hand made texture paste.  Unfortunately, even though I added way too much yellow paint, it only changed the texture and not the color!  Next I colored the 110 lb. card stock yellow.  Then I built up the cats, using 8 pieces of postcard weight paper.

Earlier I had spray painted the lengths of cardboard for a different project I decided to scrap, so I cut the strips to size.  Finally,  I added the hearts, also taken from the project I decided to scrap.  I'm glad I did, because I like this one better.  

Thanks for joining Bleubeard and me today.  I'm always delighted when you drop by.  I also hope to see you at Art Journal Journey, too.  You still have time to join the sunny yellow fun.